Would you hire a $200/month employee?
Perplexity launched a $200/month AI agent that operates your existing software autonomously. The cost of a digital employee just collapsed — and your staffing math just changed with it.
March 2026
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1 person. 43 cars. Your practice still has a 1:8 ratio.
Waymo runs 3,000 autonomous vehicles with 70 human overseers — a 1:43 ratio. Your practice still runs at 1:8. The firms that redesign around a fundamentally different human-to-client ratio will set the economics everyone else has to match.
Weekly AI Roundup: AI is repricing markets, labor, and your toolkit. Here's what moved this week.
The SaaSpocalypse entered its second month. The Federal Reserve published data showing AI is replacing entry-level workers while boosting wages for experienced ones. And three frontier AI models shipped with capabilities that didn't exist 30 days ago.